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The truly blessed man
The truly blessed man: or, The way to be happy here, and for ever: being the substance of divers sermons preached on, Psalm XXXII. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. N.E. ; [Five lines from Isaiah]
printed by B. Green for Michael Perry, 1700
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. If therefore this Guilt abide on you, it will sink you into perdition. It will be your unavoidable and everlasting ruin; the fire of the Wrath which is kindled by it, will, if not put out by his grace, burn to the uttermost hell: it will never leave till it hath crushed you down into the bottomless pit; however you may seem to stout it out for the present, you will certainly fall before ⟨p. 59⟩it, and a fearful fall it will give you. It will be a ••eadful thing to go out of the World under the Guilt of all that Sin which you are to be charged withal; and when you come to •••k over into Eternity, as ere long you will, and feel all your Sins lying on you, you would give ten thousand worlds, if you had them to dispose of, […] be delivered from under the weight of them. Oh that you would see and believe it!
3. If therefore this Guilt abide on you, it will sink you into perdition. It will be your unavoidable and everlasting ruine; the fire of the Wrath which is kindled by it, will, if not put out by his grace, burn to the uttermost hell: it will never leave till it hath crushed you down into the bottomless pit; however you may seem to stout it out for the present, you will certainly fall before ⟨p. 59⟩it, and a fearful fall it will give you. It will be a ••eadful thing to go out of the World under the Guilt of all that Sin which you are to be charged withal; and when you come to •••k over into Eternity, as ere long you will, and feel all your Sins lying on you, you would give ten thousand worlds, if you had them to dispose of, 〈…〉 be delivered from under the weight of them. Oh that you would see and believe it!